World-renowned Episcopal bishop urges Roanoke to "march into a new future"

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To change its future, a community must first face its past.

“Forgetting begets repeating,” said the Most Rev. Michael Curry, an Episcopal bishop who gained international recognition preaching at a royal wedding last year.

“By facing the past, then learning from it, you turn in a new direction. Facing a rising sun as the song would say,” he recalled with a smile. “Then, you march into a new future.”

Looking out over the crowded room before him, Curry added, “I see you here building that new future.”

Curry, presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church, spoke Saturday to a packed auditorium of congregants and community members who had come together to shed light on Roanoke’s history of urban renewal — or urban removal as it’s remembered by some of the neighborhoods it decimated.

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